ON THE COVER
Though they won't appear in the architect's plans the locomotive and freight cars pictured here play a basic part in the building of industrial plants, office buildings, schools, churches, homes and bridges, to name only a few.
From on-line cement manufacturing plants like this one, tens of thousands of carloads of portland cement ride the Southern each year on their way to builders who use cement in hundreds of ways to change the face of the South.
How these plants transform mountains of rock into the fine powder known as portland cement and what this versatile building material means to the Southern.